Talk:David Blackwell

First black tenured professor

The article claims that Prof. Blackwell was the first black tenured professor at UC Berkeley, but this seems to be incorrect. The first black tenured professor at UC Berkeley was in fact the first black tenured professor in the entire University of California system, Joseph Gier: https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/history/gier. It seems Prof. Blackwell was the first tenured black professor at UC Berkeley with the rank of "Full Professor", but not the first with tenure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minilek (talk • contribs) 18:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyvio

I've reverted to before the first copyvio, which unfortunately was back in February 2007. Superm401 - Talk 10:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

... and in doing so, wiped out most of the text of the article. Please be more careful in the future! There was no need to revert the article to a year-old version simply to remove the photo. qitaana (talk) 13:46, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

You misunderstood. I did not revert back to February 2007 because of the photo. I reverted because copyright infringements had been introduced into the text, which is why the article was tagged as a copyvio. The first copyvio was introduced on February 10, 2007, so I had to revert to the edit before that. See Wikipedia:Copyright infringement, which says, "If there is a clean revision in the page history, revert to it." I reverted to the most recent clean revision.

After the revert, I removed the photo link because it was a redlink. Note that I am not the one that deleted the photo; that was Maxim. Superm401 - Talk 16:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

david blackwell

a picture david blackwell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.246.76 (talk) 00:31, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

It does not say in google

Dr. Echenique's comment on this article

Dr. Echenique has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

Focuses on the life of Blackwell, but omits a description of his main contributions. This is a shame. It would be good to at least enumerate what he is known for and provide links to the relevant Wikipedia articles.

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Echenique has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:

• Reference : Juan Dubra & Echenique, Federico, 2001. "Monotone Preferences over Information," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1297, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.

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